"Myspace may no longer be relevant as a social media site, but its treatment of security is as relevant as ever," she wrote in a blog post examining how easy it was to trick your way into an old account.

“Myspace only validates name, username and date of birth,” she explains.

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“The full name and the username of the account holder can be found from a simple Google. Username is located in the profile URL, and name is located on the profile page. Date of birth is probably the hardest of all three to obtain, but not impossible.”

Galloway says she has notified Myspace, which is now owned by Time Inc, of the issue and only received an automated message in response.

Although Myspace has seen usage drop dramatically in the last ten years, it still holds a huge amount of personal information.

Her message is simple: delete your account while you still have access.

“If there is a possibility that you still have account on Myspace, I recommend you delete your account immediately," she said.

Last year it emerged that Myspace was the subject of a huge database breach that dated back to 2013, compromising 350 million accounts.

The company responded with a blog post explaining that "as part of the major site re-launch in the summer of 2013, Myspace took significant steps to strengthen account security.

The company explained: "The compromised data is related to the period before those measures were implemented.

"We are currently utilizing advanced protocols including double salted hashes (random data that is used as an additional input to a one-way function that 'hashes' a password or passphrase) to store passwords.

"MySpace has taken additional security steps in light of the recent report."

Of course, if you're not using Myspace any more then the most sensible option is probably just to get rid of your account completely.